Nepal disaster report: the hazardscape and vulnerability

This report highlights challenges and presents the way forward in Nepal's efforts to address the risks of disasters, showing the growing sense of urgency and the need for seriousness in reducing disaster risks in the country. It describes the main hazards Nepal is prone to, their characteristics and some disaster risk reduction activities that should be implemented to reduce their occurrence and/or their effects. It intends to provide disaster managers with information to identify specific disaster risk reduction activities for specific hazards and in specific disaster prone areas.

This report aim to help disaster managers to reduce risk at all levels mainly national, district and local, by being used in the design and implementation of disaster management programmes, plans and specific activities always within the framework of the National Strategy, the Five Flagship Programmes and the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). It would also be useful for researchers, students and the general public to know more about hazards, disasters and risk reduction to understand better their behaviour, effects, consequences and how risk can be reduced at all levels and by all segments of our society.